First Pilot Completes Redbird’s Experimental Training Published: May 10, 2012 Source: Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association Online By: Alyssa J. Miller Pilots pursuing advanced training and ratings regularly use full-motion flight simulators; some gain type certificates in sims having never flown the actual aircraft. How would that training format translate to primary instruction? Redbird Skyport [...]
Director of Bahamas Habitat Relief Organization is a Test Case in Ground Breaking Flight Training Study at Redbird Skyport Redbird Skyport and Bahamas Habitat announced an agreement for Redbird to provide the mission flying organization with a fully sponsored slot in their unique accelerated simulator based private pilot training program. Bahamas Habitat Executive Director Abraham [...]
“While on location in The Bahamas working on an AOPA story for their magazine, the folks at AOPA contacted us and offered to fly a load of supplies in their Cessna Caravan” states John Armstrong, President of Bahamas Habitat. “They have been very supportive and interested in our progress on the Children’s Home project.” The [...]
After Hurricane Irene there is still much to do. Pilots will fly to the Bahamas to make a difference while learning international mission flying. 19 September 2011 –– Bahamas Habitat announced today that in the wake of Hurricane Irene pilots are invited to join in the upcoming Fly-In & Help Out weekend flight to Eleuthera [...]
The Zion Children’s Home (ZCH) has been a happenin’ place this June. Contractor Osbourn Weech and the builders continued their diligent construction of the cottages. On June 9, Bahamas Habitat (BH) volunteers carried two plane loads of building supplies plus laptop computers into North Eleuthera (MYEH). Steve Larson and Drew Baird were in a Cherokee, [...]
Calling All Pilots Capt. Ron McElroy I’ve mused many times about the generosity and desire of pilots to help out and give back to the community. A famous example is the Young Eagles program hosted by EAA to give young people an opportunity to go flying in a general aviation airplane. Since 1992, more than [...]
First foundation is complete! Follow the progress of the Children’s Home project on Facebook!
During the October 2010 Fly-In & Help Out Event a group of Bahamas Habitat Board Members and supporters traveled to Current Island to tour the construction site for the new Zions Methodist Children’s Home project. The group observed that the site had been cleared, foundation footers have been dug and the cement block had been [...]
Bahamas Habitat regularly considers construction methods and processes that could be applied in our various construction projects. During our last Fly-In & Help Out Event a group of our board members and supporters had the opportunity to tour a construction site on Eleuthera that is experimenting with alternative construction methods. The builders at the site [...]